Opus Dei

UNIV began forty years ago thanks to the impetus of St. Josemaría Escrivá. University students from all over the world gather in Rome each year at Easter to discuss topics of current significance. A new website in six languages provides pertinent information.

Now 92 years old, Francisco Corazón recalls how he met Opus Dei and relates the beginnings of a personal apostolic initiative that has since become an international network of rural schools for farm workers.

Maria José Hernández is a lawyer and the mother of three young children.

The mystery of the Trinity is the principal mystery of our Christian faith. A young woman asks St. Josemaria how to grasp it better (01’41”).

In his February pastoral letter, the Prelate encourages us to approach Lent with optimism and desires for conversion, in order to share in God’s joy.

Lent begins this year on February 6th. The Holy Father invites us to rediscover the "value of our Christian lives" and speaks about almsgiving.

A woman asks St. Josemaría how she can help her children once they have found their life’s vocation.

In 1991, Fr. Luis de Moya, an Opus Dei priest, suffered an automobile accident. His life was miraculously saved, but his spine was fractured and he lost all mobility and sensation below the neck. He had to learn to live with an almost unusable body, dependent on others for almost everything.

VIDEO: During his first Mass of the year, on the feast of Mary, Mother of God, Pope Benedict XVI unveiled his wish list for 2008: that the family be strengthened, and that peace spread to all places.

In 1956, St. Josemaria gave a homily entitled "The Epiphany of our Lord." We offer a selection here.